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1 Title: A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
2 Date: 2022-01-01 11:00
3 Category: commentary
4 Tags: autogynephilia, bullet-biting, cathartic, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Scott Alexander, epistemic horror, my robot cult, personal, sex differences, two-type taxonomy
5 Status: draft
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7 > If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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9 > â€”Zora Neale Hurston
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11 [In a February 2021 Facebook post, Eliezer Yudkowsky inveighs against English's system of singular third-person pronouns](https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159421750419228). As a matter of clean language design, you shouldn't have to identify a subject as female or male just in order to refer to them with a pronoun.
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14 Considerations—
15  * Scifi and mystery authors
16  * it and they are more ambiguous, can refer to non-agent parts of speech
17  * they gets conjugated as a plural even in singular usage
18  * pronouns in English are less bad than Hebrew nouns
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20 Aella https://knowingless.com/2019/06/06/side-effects-of-preferred-pronouns/